Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-31

The bill to restore the death penalty for
murder in the FIRST degree in Michigan failed
in the House by only one vote.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, leading
Iowa Republican paper, is advising every
body not to nominate Blaine in 'SS.
Wonders do not cease. A Chicago crimi-
nal lawyer has given up his practice because
he doesn't think it right to defend criminals
and attempt to prove them innocent when
he knows that they are guilty.
Senator Murphy of New York has distin-
guished himself by introducing into the legis-
lature bill providing that all children from
to 10 years old found homeless shall be
placed in charge of the Roman Catholic pro-
tectory in New York city, and that the pro-
sectory shall have part of the public school
fund. Nothing very modest about this.
Congregationalism has been gaining
ground in spite of the troubles which have
assailed it. Rev. Henry A. Hazen in show
groups, the eastern including the sixteen
| States east of Ohio, the western sixteen
| States and territories beyond the Mississippi,
| and the middle the fourteen States lying be-
| tween these two groups. In the last decade
| the eastern group has gained 72 churches and
| 81 ,591 members, or 13 per cent; the middle
group 227 churches and 81, ,064 members, OF
| 33 per cent; and the west Abs churches and
| II, ,655 members, or 1853 per cent. The gain
in membership from 1876 to 1885 of 80, 251
| members is "a per cent. and is most graf
| flying showing.
An interesting international congress-
| sthat will be which is to be held in Septem.
! ber. 1t is to be congress of cremationists
| The place selected for this gathering of the
savants of various countries who are inter
ested in cremation and cemetery hygiene il
| Milan. French will be the Official language
of the congress; but the speakers may, il
they like, make use of any o ther language.
Reports will be submitted as to the progress
made in the practice of ere nation in differ
| emit countries and the form alton of an inter
national league will be proposed. An exhi-
bition of models of crematories, urns and
other objects connected with the campaign
now being conducted against the present
method of disposing of the dead will be open
during the congress.
Some enterprising story teller asserted that
Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania had given
notice to the members of his staff that they
mustn't drink that which intoxicates. The
Philadelphia Press says the story is lie. It
| further says: Governor Beaver has moi
selected drunkards for his staff, and no one
has been directed to join the temperance
army. To give such directions would be an
extraordinary commentary upon the govern
or's judgment of the men whom he has in.
| yited around him. At the League dinner
there was no occasion for any protest from
the governor. Interested contemporaries
will clearly have to employ some Other
method of making Governor Beaver ridicu-
lous, as that seems to be their purpose, and
they should try to get hold of something
| with at least little truth in it.
When a mans sense of smell is in good or
der it is more acute than is generally known
Messrs. Fischer and Penzoldt have PROVED
this. In an empty room of some two hun
dred and thirty cubic metres capacity, ant
tightly closed, small quantity of the partic
ular substance to be detected was thorough
mixed with the air and the observer then ad
mitted. Among the different substance
which were tested in this manner it wa
found that the very smallest amount recoe
nizable was .01 of milligram of mercaptar
This quantity diffused through the room sui
foed to make its distinctive character apprs